Archives - 16 November 2017, Thursday

We have great news for Care2 members: Nosey the elephant is free and has arrived at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee ! Those of you who have been following Nosey’s story may be familiar with her sad history. Nosey was captured 33 years ago as a one-year-old in Zimbabwe. She has bee...

Even though the Trump administration used its only public forum at the COP23 climate talks in Bonn to promote coal , it's clear that many individual U.S. businesses, cities and entire states would rather keep fossil fuels in the ground. Oregon and Washington state have joined a new gl...

In which we provide a few facts to put things in perspective. Last century there were up to five million elephants roaming the African continent; today, African elephants number in the hundreds of thousands. Decimated by the lust for ivory and hunting trophies, their biggest threat by...

How clean is the air you’re breathing right now? How does the air in your city compare with that of a neighbouring city or region? Air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe. The European Environment Agency's European Air Quality Index allows users to unde...

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How clean is the air you’re breathing right now? How does the air in your city compare with that of a neighbouring city or region? Air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe. The European Environment Agency's European Air Quality Index allows users to unde...

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Last Thursday, at the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany (known as COP23 ), the World Resources Institute (WRI) announced that $2.1 billion in private investment funds have been committed to efforts to restore degraded lands in the Caribbean and Latin America. The investments will be m...

Environmentalists and climate scientists contend that now is precisely the moment when the nation should be pivoting away from a major expansion of oil drilling. The rapid growth of wind and solar power, an emerging electric vehicle industry, and increasing alarm over climate change a...

“We are currently in talks with numerous plastic pollution abatement projects around the world. To partner with and invest in them, ensuring true global plastic offset. It is imperative we tackle the plastic problem head on and encourage all projects involved in fighting plastic pollu...

Range anxiety —the fear that an electric vehicle has an insufficient charge to reach its destination—is one of the most common, but fair, concerns about EVs. Just think, what if you and your car get stuck in the middle of a desert and have nowhere close by to juice up? Ultimately, if ...

The Trump administration has agreed to allow the remains of elephants killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia to be brought back to the U.S., a reversal of an Obama-era ban. In 2014, the President Obama's administration banned the imports of elephant trophies to protect the species. "Additional...

On Monday, Nov. 13, a bi-partisan group of seven states (New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and Vermont), and the District of Columbia announced that they will seek public input on how to craft a regional solution to greenhouse gas emissions from th...

As sustainability executives, we think there must be a positive correlation between investing in communications and engaging employees on sustainability and corporate responsibility, and employees’ overall job satisfaction. But there’s been little concrete data collected to make the b...

When we traveled to Achuar territory last month to the bi-annual assembly of the Federation of the Achuar Nationality of Peru (FENAP) deep in the Peruvian Amazon, we didn't just drop by for a friendly visit. We went to confer with FENAP and its 45 member communities about the threat o...

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Indigenous communities claimed a victory at COP23 in Bonn Wednesday, as governments acknowledged their leadership role in protecting forests and containing climate change . Despite comprising 370 million of the world's population and having communal ownership of more than 20 percent o...

An analysis of 133 studies found natural regeneration was more effective than active, human-driven restoration at restoring tropical forests. The study refutes conventional wisdom that holds that actively restoring a forest is better than letting it grow back by itself. The authors sa...

The first corporate-issued sustainability bond was spun from the question Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz usually poses at the coffee company's investor meetings: "What's the role and responsibility of a for-profit, publicly traded company?" It's an unusual question in an investor u...

October 2017 was the second warmest October in 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. Last month was +0.90 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean October t...

More than a year after the election of Donald Trump, the opposition Democratic Party still hasn’t found its voice on climate change. That’s according to an essential overview of the situation from the Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer. Taken at face value, it’s not good news: Despite consiste...

COP23: Climate Conference Tip-Toes Around Regenerative Agriculture as Solution to Global Warming By Ercilia Sahores On Nov. 6, the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23 ) to the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicked off in Bonn, Germany, the nation's former ca...

Orsted A/S, the Danish company built on oil and gas extraction, will issue its first green bonds as it moves toward completing a transition to renewable energy. Orsted, which sold its oil division earlier this year, plans to offer a hybrid note due in 3017 (it’s a 1,000-year bond) and...

This Sunday, November 19, is World Toilet Day . First established in 2001 by the World Toilet Organization , the United Nations eventually made it one its official international days in 2013. This year, World Toilet Day’s overarching theme is wastewater , with a reminder that the UN’s...

Michael Honeycutt—the man set to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA 's) prestigious Science Advisory Board—has spent most of his career as a credentialed counterpoint against almost anything the EPA has proposed to protect human health. Fortunately, his lone voice fo...

In a huge victory for animal rights, Ahmad Heryawan, the Governor of West Java, has issued a ban on wild boar-and-dog fights (known as “ dugong” or “Adu bagong” ) . Ade Sukalsah, Head of Communications for the West Java Government, told BBC Indonesia : “Wild boar – dog fights are a lo...

When I wrote about how to install a DC fast charging station , one commenter responded by saying a "50kw charger is useless." I thought that was a little unfair. In my experience, while I use them infrequently, a 50kw charger provides the option of a relatively quick "top up" that mak...

“Ninety thousand solar lanterns sold last quarter,” said Mr. Li. He was sharing sales numbers for his solar appliance business in Ethiopia, and I couldn’t believe it. To put that number in perspective, the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association pegs the average number of all solar light...

Michael Honeycutt – the man set to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s prestigious Science Advisory Board – has spent most of his career as a credentialed counterpoint against almost anything the EPA has proposed to protect human health. Fortunately, his lone voice for the...

We've spent a lot more time lately looking at the structure of U.S. power markets. Why? Because they're about to get shaken up. It's already begun. In this episode, we'll look at how renewables are upending wholesale power markets today -- and what we can do about it. We'll examine th...

Tesla has always been focused on avoiding that problem, installing 6, 8, 10, or 12 stalls at a single station, for example. But as the EV-driving market grows, so does the need for extra stalls at a single station. Tesla doesn’t get around that law. As the number of Tesla drivers on t...